BILL REQ. #:  H-0687.1 

Read first time 01/20/09.   Referred to Committee on Health Care & Wellness.

     AN ACT Relating to food service rules; and amending RCW 43.20.145.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1   RCW 43.20.145 and 2003 c 65 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) The state board shall consider the most recent version of the United States food and drug administration's food code for the purpose of adopting rules for food service.
     (2) The rules for food service must provide an exemption to the cold holding temperature standard of forty-one degrees or colder for an establishment that purchased their equipment prior to May 2, 2005, and the equipment meets the standards that were in place at the time the equipment was purchased. The exemption shall not apply to equipment purchased by the establishment on or after May 2, 2005, to replace equipment that is exempt under this subsection.